Apple is the largest corporation on earth and, in the last quarter, their profits doubled versus the same quarter during the prior year. As my partner Barry likes to say, “Stop and think about it!” Indeed, that’s f***ing bananas. Apples. Whatever. Here’s what else Apple told us last night: EPS: $1.30 vs. $1.01 estimated Revenue: $81.41 billion vs. $73.30 […]

[embedded content] 5:30pm ET LIVE premiere today – Subscribe for the alert! Join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another round of What Are Your Thoughts? On this week’s episode, Josh and Michael discuss the biggest topics in investing and finance, including: ►Unforced Error – Why is China crashing its own stock market? ►Securities-Based […]

Once upon a time, when I knew nothing, I called myself a financial advisor. It’s true, I was giving financial advice. But when I look back to the caliber and quality of that advice from back then to now, it’s astonishing how much I didn’t know. I was raised in this business to believe that […]

Jack Bogle did it. Warren Buffett did it. Ben Horowitz too. And Chris Dixon. So did Fred Wilson. So did Howard Marks. And David Einhorn. Gross and El-Erian. Fisher and Edelman. Gundlach and Grantham. They all did it. Many others too. Did what? Built investing careers and raised billions of dollars based on the ideas […]

Welcome to the eighth episode of The Compound & Friends, a new podcast from your favorite financial and investing commentators. This week, Michael Batnick, Packy McCormick, and Downtown Josh Brown discuss: ►What Packy learned launching a venture capital fund ►Pre-IPO shares are going to be a big thing ►Is China Tech becoming uninvestable? ►Work calendars […]

[embedded content] 5:30pm ET LIVE premiere today – Subscribe for the alert! Join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another round of What Are Your Thoughts? On this week’s episode, Josh and Michael discuss the biggest topics in investing and finance, including: ►Buying The Dip? – Here’s that dip you said you were gonna […]

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Welcome to the seventh episode of The Compound & Friends, a new podcast from your favorite financial and investing commentators. This week, Michael Batnick, Leanna Haakons, Doug Boneparth, and Downtown Josh Brown discuss: ►Carson Group’s Billion Dollar Valuation ►Name Brand Hedge Funds ►Bank Disruption ►Debt payments collapsing as a % of earnings ►Vanguard getting into […]

I don’t watch a lot of TV during the day but I happened to have caught this great interview between Joe Kernan and Carson Block this morning regarding the latest signaling from the Chinese Communist Party. They warned their version of Uber, called Didi, not to f*** around and list on a US exchange, and […]

(you can listen to this podcast above, or find The Goldmine wherever fine podcasts are streamed)  By flooding the mortgage market with wave after wave of liquidity, more than one year after the start of the pandemic and in an environment of zero percent interest rates, the Fed is still stimulating the sellers of homes. […]